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From: mjn@teddy.UUCP (Mark J. Norton)
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Subject: Re: "Chapterhouse:Dune"
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 09:04:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 09:04:26 1985
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***************************  Spoiler Warning  ****************************
****************  Don't read unless you've read the book  ****************

> As for the very end (the last two or three pages), if Herbert was trying
> to totally confuse the reader, he succeeded with me.  I get the feeling
> that he is about to push off in some totally new and previously
> unmentioned direction.  Beyond that, the conversation between Daniel
> and Marty, two total unknowns who are introduced in the last two pages
> (pruning roses, of all things!), has a lot of the flavor of: "and then
> the little boy woke up."
> 
> 		- Herb

You weren't paying attention to the sub-plots!  Three or four times during
the book Duncan Idaho mentioned that he had visions of two people on the
other side of some network of light.  This couple spoke to him once or
twice, and were seen in a garden of some sort.

Heretics of and Chapterhouse: are both concerned with various peoples
returning from the Scattering caused by the Tyrant (Leto II).  Two of 
these are the Honored Matres and the Futars.  The couple in the garden
are another Scattered race:  remants of the super-Face Dancers which
fled their Tlielax masters.

Now, put this together with the fact that Idaho and Sheeana fled to an
unknown destination in a no-ship at the end of C: Dune and you get a 
sneak peek of Dune-7 (Beneath the Planet of the Lorna Dunes).

		Mark J. Norton
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